The present-day star formation rate of the milky way determined from spitzer-detected young stellar objects

Astrophysical Journal Letters

Volumn 710, Issue 1 PART 2, 2010, Pages

  Robitaille, Thomas P ^a   Whitney, Barbara A ^b  

^a HARVARD SMITHSONIAN CENTER FOR ASTROPHYSICS   (United States)

^b Center for Extrasolar Planetary Studies   (United States)

Author keywords

Galaxy: fundamental parameters; Infrared: stars; Stars: formation; Stars: pre main sequence

Indexed keywords

EID: 77949517410     PISSN: 20418205     EISSN: 20418213     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1088/2041-8205/710/1/L11     Document Type: Article

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